How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Not a day without a line.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Home is where the heart is.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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In wine there is health.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Chance is a second master.
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